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Full Show Podcast: 27 May 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof make your Property Search
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning. It is six half to five
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Speaker 2: year on news Talks, it'd be Tuesday the twenty seventh.
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Speaker 2: Have made great to have your company. So the question
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Speaker 2: this morning is will the police investigate if something that's
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Speaker 2: of low value less than five hundred dollars is stolen.
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Speaker 2: We'll have a retail inz on the program just before
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Speaker 2: six trying to answer. I tell you it is a
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Speaker 2: messy situation of their own making. I have to say
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Speaker 2: Mercis is the German chancellor. He's saying go for it
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Speaker 2: to Ukraine. Europe stepping up this morning with longer range
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Speaker 2: missiles to go at Russia. We'll talk about that. Also,
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Speaker 2: Farmers up in arms, even though they don't like carbon farms.
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Speaker 2: We know that. But what's happening is pigs, stoaks, dere
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Speaker 2: all sorts are festering in there and coming across the
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Speaker 2: border into their farmland and harming it. So we'll have
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Speaker 2: Andrew Hongard on the program too. Donald de Maya in Australia.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Tuesday the twenty seven to my Trump's not
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Speaker 2: happy with Posen, He's called them absolutely crazy.
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Speaker 3: What Putin's doing is killing a lot of people. And
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Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've
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Speaker 3: known him a long time, always gotten along with him,
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Speaker 3: but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and
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Speaker 3: I don't like it at all.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so he's still threatening further sanctions, and as I said,
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Speaker 2: the Europeans are stepping up. We'll get to that in
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Speaker 2: a sick Meanwhile, the EU off the hook for now
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Speaker 2: for tariffs until the July the ninth. Last week, Trump
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Speaker 2: thretten to raise the terriff right on most e goods
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Speaker 2: to fifty percent. But that was just, you know, the
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Speaker 2: art of the deal.
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Speaker 4: I don't believe for a second that the EU will
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Speaker 4: be willing to accept a similar trade deal to the
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Speaker 4: one that Trump struck with the British government, which basically
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Speaker 4: enabled Trump to impose higher tariffs on British exports for
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Speaker 4: very little, if any real chat. That won't work with you.
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Speaker 2: More Israeli shelling on Gaza Overnight, fifty four Palestinians killed,
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Speaker 2: most of them in a school building sheltering.
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Speaker 5: It was indescribable, buddy parts, short bodies, the smell of burning,
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Speaker 5: a squea to God, our hearts of dy.
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Speaker 2: Now Over in Liverpool in the UK, they're going nuts,
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Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands in the streets celebrating their twentieth top
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Speaker 2: flight football title.
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Speaker 6: We're going to have this river of red flowing down
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Speaker 6: to the Mersey and this explosion of joy and celebration
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Speaker 6: as those Liverpool players show off that Premier League trophy.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on the edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 1: Property Search Simple, youth dog.
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Speaker 2: Zibby Good morning. So we'll start with Frederick Mertz. This
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Speaker 2: is Mertz rhymes with skirts, by the way, is the
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Speaker 2: German chancellor. Now he has come out and said overnight
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Speaker 2: that any long range missile that you crane wants to
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Speaker 2: use to fire at Russia, go for it. Now. Whether
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Speaker 2: they'll actually back that up with the weapons that Ukraine
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Speaker 2: has been asking for. There's a Taurus missile that they've
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Speaker 2: been wanting to get their hands on from the Germans
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Speaker 2: in particular. It's got a range of five hundred kilometers.
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Speaker 2: Whether they will give them those we don't know. But
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Speaker 2: what we do know is the Lenski's heading to Berlin,
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Speaker 2: which is probably a good sign from his perspective. So
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Speaker 2: that where the British did this, Remember last year November
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Speaker 2: last year, they said, I will give you our shadow missiles.
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Speaker 2: They're the longer range ones. You want to get further
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Speaker 2: inside Russian start pounding them where it hurts. So the
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Speaker 2: Brits allowed that. Now the Germans have done the same,
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Speaker 2: The French have already done the same. So basically the
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Speaker 2: West is saying Russia, we're coming for you, which is interesting,
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Speaker 2: isn't it, because they were a little soft footed just
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Speaker 2: a few weeks back. I'll give you some sanctions and
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Speaker 2: we'll put a deadline, and then they never met the deadline.
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Speaker 2: Now they're saying, hey, there's some big long range missiles.
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Speaker 2: They're coming your way. Persent. Oh, the Krewmen's already responded
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Speaker 2: saying this is a quote dangerous move, but maybe it'll
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Speaker 2: be maybe it'll force their hand. Ten after five. Now
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Speaker 2: the police situation, so obviously the police can't go to
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Speaker 2: every call out every time a lollipop gets stolen from
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Speaker 2: a dairy. You can't send a police officer with a taser,
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Speaker 2: even though you'd like to. But that's come out with
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Speaker 2: this directive, and they've said, even if there are lines
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Speaker 2: of inquiry, anything under five hundred bucks is basically fine.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if someone steals a tank of gas, even
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Speaker 2: if there are positive lines of inquiry, they're not going
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Speaker 2: to investigate. And then they came on the radio yesterday
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Speaker 2: and said, oh no, we might investigate if there's CCTV
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Speaker 2: footage availer. Basically if someone else has done half the
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Speaker 2: job for us, if we know the number played or
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Speaker 2: this CCTV or something like that. I mean, no, you
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Speaker 2: cannot have every tiny little incident and crime investigated. But
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Speaker 2: this is a This has got to be a bad look,
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Speaker 2: not just for police but for Mark Mitchell. What they
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Speaker 2: did over in Los Angeles, over in California when they said, oh,
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Speaker 2: I know, you can basically get away with anything under
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Speaker 2: eight hundred bucks, and they did. People came into the
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Speaker 2: shops and just filled their boots. It's not a great
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Speaker 2: look for them, is it. Nine two eleven after five.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof make your Property
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Speaker 1: search symbol.
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Speaker 2: Newstalk said the five point thirteen on your Tuesday Morning
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Speaker 2: over an Australia Health Scope is a company, a private
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Speaker 2: hospital operator, and it's just collapsed. It's gone on to
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Speaker 2: receiver ship. They've got nineteen thousand star thirty seven hospitals.
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Speaker 2: Get this though responsible. This is a private hospital operator
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Speaker 2: responsible for seventy percent of all elective surgeries and a
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Speaker 2: quarter of all births in Australia, private hospitals. And we
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Speaker 2: moan here about the role of a private hospital in
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Speaker 2: our health system. Well, they seem to be getting away
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Speaker 2: with it quite fine. No government bailout, by the way
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Speaker 2: for this company. They've got enough cash on hand, they've
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Speaker 2: got some extra lending from the banks. They reckon they
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Speaker 2: was sell the hospitals. Lots of buyers came fourteen after five.
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Speaker 2: Rich farmers fuming this morning. They say carbon farms have
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Speaker 2: been harboring pests like stoats, possums, feral pegs, deer coming
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Speaker 2: onto their land and harming livestock with no accountability. There's
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Speaker 2: a new campaign out to as save our sheep. Andrew
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Speaker 2: Hoggard is the Associate Agriculture Minister with me this morning. Andrew,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Come on, all right, hey, what's happening with
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Speaker 2: the pests coming across?
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Speaker 7: I mean it's being growing problem over the last three
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Speaker 7: or four years, and quite frankly, I think go back
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Speaker 7: to the COVID lofty in it just seemed like there
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Speaker 7: was a explosion in pest numbers across firms. On seeing
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Speaker 7: more and more deer on my place than I ever
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Speaker 7: did before, and so a combination of people not going
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Speaker 7: out hunting just allowed lots of breeding. And I think
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Speaker 7: in terms of the you know, those forestry blocks swing,
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Speaker 7: I'm going to have a look into. And we're redoing
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Speaker 7: the Biosecurity Act at the moment, and I know in
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Speaker 7: the old Act there was always a duty of a
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Speaker 7: landowner to maintain control pests within their boundary and make
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Speaker 7: sure they're not going across their boundary to other people's property.
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Speaker 7: So I'll take a double look at what we're proposing
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Speaker 7: there as to whether or not that needs to be
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Speaker 7: strengthened up.
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Speaker 2: So you would potentially put more onus on the carbon
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Speaker 2: farmers to look after the deer and the peaces and
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Speaker 2: the stoats and everything on their land so that it
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Speaker 2: doesn't go and annoy everybody else.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean definitely, I mean that's part of the
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Speaker 7: deal would be, you know, you look after you're responsible
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Speaker 7: for what happens on your property, and you should not
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Speaker 7: be exporting problems from across your property to your neighbors.
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Speaker 7: To your duty as a landowner to control your what's
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Speaker 7: happening in your property, make sure those problems don't go
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Speaker 7: across what's the.
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Speaker 2: Fin what happens at the moment, if that's found to have.
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Speaker 7: Happened basically from memory, and I've only ever heard about
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Speaker 7: this in terms of weed pests. You know, the regional
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Speaker 7: council might come by and say, hey, you've got too
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Speaker 7: many thistles or whatever on your property. You need to
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Speaker 7: go and manage them. I don't think, to be honest,
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Speaker 7: that it's something up until this point that's ever really
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Speaker 7: been a big well acted or look or looked at
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Speaker 7: even or taken seriously. So you know, potentially this is
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Speaker 7: something we do need to look into.
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Speaker 2: A lot of what could you do? I mean obviously
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Speaker 2: it would probably be hard to will presumably be quite
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Speaker 2: hard to prove.
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Speaker 7: H I mean, yeah, that would be something would need
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Speaker 7: to have a look into. I mean you can easily
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Speaker 7: do counts of animals and go, well, look there's a
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Speaker 7: truckload of pigs here. You need to This has become
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Speaker 7: a problem and you can see the damage that there's
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Speaker 7: been occurring on neighboring property and you know, make some
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Speaker 7: sort of slap them with a fine, l fine or
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Speaker 7: just a direction that they need to take care of
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Speaker 7: these pests and invest in getting hunters into remove these pests.
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Speaker 2: Is the expansion of carbon farms the reason that this
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Speaker 2: save our Sheep campaign is getting underway.
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Speaker 7: I think it's part of the reason. Another part is
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Speaker 7: the I believe concerned about what might be happening in
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Speaker 7: terms of methane targets. But yeah, we haven't had those
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Speaker 7: discussions between parties yet as to what those targets may
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Speaker 7: well be. So I think they're probably putting a stake
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Speaker 7: in the ground.
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Speaker 2: When are those chats happening?
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Speaker 8: Not sure.
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Speaker 7: I'm not the one that is required to have The
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Speaker 7: other ministers have to chat with me, not the other
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Speaker 7: way around. So I am waiting with baited breath.
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Speaker 2: You're waiting to be chatted at. Yeah, you appreciate your
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Speaker 2: time this morning. Take here, Andrew Hoggart, who's the Associate
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Speaker 2: Agriculture Minister. It is eighteen after five. You're on news Talk, said.
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Speaker 1: B get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof make your property search simple
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Speaker 1: news Dogs it'd.
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Speaker 2: Be Roger has texted the program twenty after five Morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: I had a trailer and three boats stolen from BP
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Speaker 2: three months ago. Supplied the CCTV of the vehicle, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Total value was eight thousand dollars. Nothing was done about it.
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Speaker 2: Well there you go, Well eight thousand dollars nothing done?
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Speaker 2: What hope you have a five hundred or less? Now?
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Speaker 2: Greyhound Racing New Zealand is started the proceedings for a
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Speaker 2: judicial review into this ban on the sector. Industry of
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Speaker 2: leaders say Winston Peters has not once consulted on them
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Speaker 2: about the policy they announced in December. They say a
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Speaker 2: thousand people's livelihoods will be affected. Nearly three thousand dogs
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Speaker 2: need to be re honed by twenty twenty six. Craig
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Speaker 2: Roberts is a greyhound trainer with us this morning. Craig,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Ryan, Good morning listeners.
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Speaker 2: How long have you been doing this?
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Speaker 8: A very long time, Ryan, over forty years?
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Speaker 2: And is this your livelihood?
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Speaker 8: Yes, it is that. Obviously it started off as a
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Speaker 8: hobby because Bake, when I started in greyhound racing, you'd
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Speaker 8: win a ribbon in about twenty five dollars. So over
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Speaker 8: the years, as the sport's growing and become part of
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Speaker 8: the tab I've been lucky enough to be able to
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Speaker 8: earn a living and it's been my lifestyle and my
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Speaker 8: whole family's lifestyle ever since.
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Speaker 2: How many dogs you got, Craig, I sort of I.
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Speaker 8: Sort of hover around thirty five to forty race dogs
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Speaker 8: and try to have about twenty five to thirty racing.
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Speaker 2: And what are you going to do with them all?
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Speaker 8: Well, we're going to well, of course, this is all.
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Speaker 8: If the band comes into force on the first of
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Speaker 8: August twenty twenty six, it will be about two and
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Speaker 8: a half thousand to three thousand dogs to ree home.
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Speaker 8: We will we will be making sure that they do
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Speaker 8: find homes, and it will be a long, long process
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Speaker 8: of possibly up to three to four years. But if
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Speaker 8: the band does go ahead, those greyhounds will be well
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Speaker 8: looked after and they will be here with us until
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Speaker 8: they find homes.
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Speaker 2: You've got your judicial review underway. Can you understand why
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Speaker 2: pub maybe people who are n't involved in greyhound raising,
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Speaker 2: why people don't like it?
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Speaker 8: Yes, well I can. My opinion on that is that
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Speaker 8: they have been fed a lot of misinformation and exaggeration
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Speaker 8: of statistics from a small group of people that are
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Speaker 8: very vigilant and very aggressive in the deliverance of their
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Speaker 8: hatred of greyhound racing.
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Speaker 2: How many dogs have died under your watch in your
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Speaker 2: forty years or.
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Speaker 8: Injured of my own, probably through through racing injuries over
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Speaker 8: forty years. I wouldn't even I'd have to have an
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Speaker 8: add up, but it wouldn't be it would be single figures,
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Speaker 8: put it that way. But there have there have been
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Speaker 8: dogs that have suffered injuries. Obviously. I've got a beautiful
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Speaker 8: ten year old, beautiful bed white and brindle male. He
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Speaker 8: hit his leg when he was about three years old.
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Speaker 8: He's lived a fantastic like he was us. He's he
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Speaker 8: got operated on, he recovered, happy as there he's now.
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Speaker 8: He's there or I think he's about eleven years old now.
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Speaker 8: And there's hundreds of those sort of cases, thousands probably
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Speaker 8: over that many years. But you know, most, probably ninety
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Speaker 8: five percent of the injuries that are recorded for greyhounds
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Speaker 8: are not serious injuries. They are just injuries that prevent
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Speaker 8: them from racing for a short period of time and
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Speaker 8: then they then they retraverl from that and they get
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Speaker 8: back into the ratio.
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Speaker 2: I'm back at it, Craig. I appreciate you coming on
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Speaker 2: the program. That's Craig Roberts, greyhound trainer and a board
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Speaker 2: member with Greyhound Racing New Zealand. It's worth one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty nine million dollars to the economy every year.
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Speaker 2: He pays his butcher by the way, seven to ten
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Speaker 2: grand a week for meat, and half of the local
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Speaker 2: vets clients are racing dogs. So it's going to have
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Speaker 2: a big impact. And twenty twenty six is the end date,
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Speaker 2: basically twenty five minutes after five or talk more about Chippy,
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Speaker 2: Labor and what Winston has said about the next the early.
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Speaker 2: News Talks B. It is twenty seven minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: So Winston has definitively he ruled out working with Labour,
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Speaker 2: not just Chippy but Labor. He had, of course, already
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Speaker 2: pretty much done this earlier in the year after his
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Speaker 2: State of the Nation address in which he called the
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Speaker 2: Labour leadership a bunch of liars and unreformed losers. Remember that,
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Speaker 2: but this is crystal clear out he's spoken to Thomas
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Speaker 2: Coglan at the Herald and its affirm Nah no, he's
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Speaker 2: holding up that sign. This is interesting for two reasons. One,
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Speaker 2: Winston's a political wizard. We know this. He knows how
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Speaker 2: to read the room and play the game. This is
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Speaker 2: not a random outburst from Winnie. This is a calculated
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Speaker 2: decision based on the path he thinks will get New
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Speaker 2: Zealand first back to the Treasury benches in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: By virtue of ruling them out, he has reduced his
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Speaker 2: bargaining power, which is not an outcome that a kingmaker
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Speaker 2: like him takes lightly. The key to his success on
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Speaker 2: the campaign trail has always been as much about what
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Speaker 2: he stands against as what he stands for. Think immigration,
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Speaker 2: think treaty issues. He's decided that in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 2: the punching bag will be a three headed clown show
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Speaker 2: marriage of the Greens, Labor and to Party Mardi. He's
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Speaker 2: read the room and he's picked his side. In twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three, Winston ruled out Labor before Chippy definitively ruled
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Speaker 2: out Winston. Remember that our Chippy has yet to do
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Speaker 2: the same for twenty twenty six, and he's now missed
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Speaker 2: his chance and any moral high ground that went with it. Remember,
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Speaker 2: Hipkins must appeal to a base that despises the anti
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Speaker 2: woke agenda that Winston pedals. This year alone, he's labeled
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Speaker 2: him a pale version of Donald Trump, a conspiracy theorist,
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Speaker 2: a spokesman for the tobacco lobby, you name it, and
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Speaker 2: Hipkins's failure to rule out working with him kind of
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Speaker 2: undermines the high horse that he canters around the Parliament
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Speaker 2: on his approtestations now will sound rather hollow. So it's interesting,
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Speaker 2: isn't it, Winston, not just for Chippy but for labor.
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Speaker 2: It is a hard no. Ryan bredg twenty nine after
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Speaker 2: five year on Newstalk said, would love your feedback nine
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Speaker 2: two nine two. When something gets stolen it's worth less
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Speaker 2: than five hundred bucks. Who you're gonna call? We'll look
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Speaker 2: at that. Just before six, Donald demo out of Australia
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Speaker 2: and our reporters. Next on news Talk said ban.
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Speaker 1: You on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and one roof make your property search simple.
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Speaker 1: News Talk said, Bill.
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Speaker 2: Is twenty four minutes away from sexier. On news Talk
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Speaker 2: said b elon Musk is moving a lot of resource
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Speaker 2: to try and get to Marsie rickens, he'll have the
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Speaker 2: starship rocket ready for Mars by next year. Did we
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Speaker 2: believe that anyway? He's diverting resources, huge resources from other
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Speaker 2: projects to go towards this. There are going to test
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Speaker 2: an experimental vehicle sometime today, So we'll make sure we
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Speaker 2: keep you across that. It's always quite interesting to at
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Speaker 2: least watch it. Isn't it so ready for a Mars
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Speaker 2: mission by next year. In recent months, employees have been
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Speaker 2: moving into starship roles, including some Dragon Space Spacecraft staffers
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Speaker 2: who were reassigned in mid May. This is according to
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Speaker 2: people familiar with the matter. It's SpaceX. There's Elon must
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Speaker 2: fix this morning. So many texts about police not following
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Speaker 2: up on shoplifting or what so called minor thefts. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: you can steal anything you want from Facebook marketplace these days.
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Speaker 2: I made a report from art and valued over two
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars, but the police said they don't look into
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Speaker 2: marketplace fraud. I even had security camera footage, Ryan, and
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Speaker 2: just say your stuff was worth five hundred and one dollars.
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Speaker 2: It's not a bad idea because how do they know? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: just lie. I mean, you don't want to lie to
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Speaker 2: the police, But then if you need to do something
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Speaker 2: to get their attention, don't you. The problem is if
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Speaker 2: you don't think that they are going to do anything
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Speaker 2: about it, you won't report it. And if you don't
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Speaker 2: report it, we don't know how bad crime is. And
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Speaker 2: what happens when we don't know how bad or we
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Speaker 2: don't feel like police are doing something about crime. We
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Speaker 2: take matters into our own hands, don't we. Oh, we
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Speaker 2: fly to Mars twenty two away from six Bryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: Colum is our first reporter up this morning and Dunedan Culum,
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. You've got a new study on
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Speaker 2: high rates of prescription opioid use for pregnant women. Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: This report's quite alarming.
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Speaker 9: It was co authored by Otaga University researchers and it
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Speaker 9: ranks New Zealand third out of thirteen high income countries,
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Speaker 9: with eight percent of pregnancies here being exposed to opioids.
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Speaker 9: That compares with four percent in Canada and just zero
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Speaker 9: point four percent in the.
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Speaker 2: UK, so we're quite high.
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Speaker 9: Researchers say the findings are unexpected and the risks of
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Speaker 9: these drugs need to be better considered. They say opioids
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Speaker 9: increased risks of adverse outcomes such as pre term birth
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Speaker 9: and low birth weight, are breathing problems and also neuro
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Speaker 9: develop mental conditions.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather today.
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Speaker 9: It's mostly cloudy for us with northeasterlies today. The high
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Speaker 9: fourteen brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you and clear. Sorry, Claire is in christ Church clear.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So what's this about the Quantus awards. You guys have
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Speaker 2: done well well.
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Speaker 11: No, we've got a big announcement in relation to Quantus.
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Speaker 11: So the airline's going to operate seven additional weekly flights
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Speaker 11: between christ Church and Sydney and up to three extra
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Speaker 11: between christ Church and Melbourne over the summer period, so
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Speaker 11: from mid December to late January. It's just another sign
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Speaker 11: of positive things for us down here. It comes on
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Speaker 11: the back of Singapore Airlines adding an extra forty six
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Speaker 11: return flights over that same peak summer season. Christ Church
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Speaker 11: Airport of course very excited about this. They say the
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Speaker 11: new flights have been timed to connect seamlessly with other
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Speaker 11: international services so people can continue on to the likes
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Speaker 11: of Asia or Europe. While the chief executive, Justin Watson says,
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Speaker 11: of course the extra flights are a win for our tourism,
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Speaker 11: trade and travel. More flights mean more visitors, which means
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Speaker 11: more spending and of course more benefits for our economy.
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Speaker 2: Oh great, excellent news. Clear how's your weather.
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Speaker 11: Cloudy periods with a bit of fog about early northeasterlies
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Speaker 11: as we make our way to fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you in Max's and Wellington, Max, good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 5: Just off the back of what Claire said, five extra
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Speaker 5: flights to and from Wellington Sydney over the summer as well.
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Speaker 5: So qantas also boosting its Wellington presence as well.
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Speaker 2: That's great. I think picking up some of the slack
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Speaker 2: perhaps from me in New Zealand, because in New Zealand
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Speaker 2: pulled out of some was it Brisbane christ Church routes. Yeah,
21:52
Speaker 2: so this is great. It's good people are stepping under
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Speaker 2: fill the void. Max. What's going on with the council
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Speaker 2: wage bill?
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Speaker 5: Front page of the Post today. The consultant costs for
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Speaker 5: the city council here more than double in five years,
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Speaker 5: the overall wage bill up forty percent. What's really bleak
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Speaker 5: is this is despite them cutting more than one hundred
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Speaker 5: and twenty employees last year. A lot of gravy on
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Speaker 5: this train. In twenty twenty seventeen people were paid over
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Speaker 5: two hundred k a year. That's now thirty nine and
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Speaker 5: yet there's still the need to spend fifty nine million
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Speaker 5: dollars in the last financial year on consultants. Apparently, the
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Speaker 5: council's argument is these salary and wage increases just reflect
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Speaker 5: the increased investment in the city, the increased delivery of services.
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Speaker 5: I wonder if Wellingtonians feel like they're being forty percent
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Speaker 5: more listened to councilor Nicolay Young calls that municipal bloat.
22:38
Speaker 5: Tony Randall told the Post the council's refusal to look
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Speaker 5: at staffing and efficiency levels only kicks the can down
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Speaker 5: the road. The government's eye firmly on the council this
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Speaker 5: financial year.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather?
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Speaker 5: Cloudy this morning but improving seventeen the high Thank you.
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Speaker 2: And never with us. Good morning, you're rating Now this
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Speaker 2: woman who got the money in new bank account in
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Speaker 2: when and spent it ghost on to her boyfriend. She's
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Speaker 2: been charged.
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Speaker 12: Yes, that is the update. So this is good news.
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Speaker 12: So this was this theft after allegedly receiving one hundred
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Speaker 12: and fifty eight thousand dollars due to that account era
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Speaker 12: that you mentioned, Ryan So seventy eight year old Mount
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Speaker 12: Roskill pensioner Andrew chi st Bong. He says, when entering
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Speaker 12: the payment instructions, he accidentally missed out one digit, meaning
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Speaker 12: all his life's savings landed in the wrong account. Now,
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Speaker 12: when the mistake was realized, Westpac immediately frozy account and
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Speaker 12: was able to recover about twenty eight thousand. But yes,
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Speaker 12: it's alleged to the woman who partners spent thousands of dollars. Yes,
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Speaker 12: you're quite right, cars, cash transfers and money sent overseas
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Speaker 12: to relatives. So we now know that the pair have
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Speaker 12: both been charged and summons to a peer in the
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Speaker 12: Auckland District Court next week.
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Speaker 10: So that's good news.
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Speaker 2: That is good news. How's our weather today and everybody?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, last night wet and wet again today, rain heavy
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Speaker 12: at times, easy to a few showers. This morning fine
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Speaker 12: spells apparently later in the date ninety is the high here.
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Speaker 2: In Auckland, brilliant, Thank you, Neva. It is eighteen minutes
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Speaker 2: away from Sex. You wouldn't let anyone get away with
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Speaker 2: stealing stuff with Geneva. Even if it's dressed some five
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Speaker 2: hundred bucks, you chase them through the Superman. That's the
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Speaker 2: kind of cop I want. Eighteen away from Sex News talk,
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Speaker 2: here be Donald Demo out of Australian.
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Speaker 1: Exit, International correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about the low value theft in just a
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Speaker 2: second before sex. Right now it's quarter two and Donald Mayo,
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Speaker 2: not Donald de Mayo, is with us out of Australia.
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Speaker 2: Don a good morning, good morning to you. Now you've
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Speaker 2: got a snap ban on machete in Victoria. Is this
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Speaker 2: is the violent brawl that we've seen in the in
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Speaker 2: the shopping center.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so from tomorrow you can no longer purchase a
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Speaker 13: machete in Victoria. And that does follow that vicious brawl
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Speaker 13: in the shopping center in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.
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Speaker 13: Now two teenagers sixteen and fifteen years old are alleged
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Speaker 13: to be the main offenders. They were both on BA
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Speaker 13: at the time. The skirmish was between rival gangs. It's
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Speaker 13: understood and as you can imagine shoppers going about their
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Speaker 13: business on a Sunday afternoon, we're left scurrying for safety,
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Speaker 13: absolutely petrified as to what was going on there. And
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Speaker 13: now four mails have been charged. Police are still looking
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Speaker 13: for three others. But the government has introduced this snap
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Speaker 13: ban on the sale of machetes from midday tomorrow and
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Speaker 13: the police say that there's three machetes that have been
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Speaker 13: seized and a total of four is believed to have
25:31
Speaker 13: been used in the brawl. So the Premier has come
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Speaker 13: out and said these knives have no place on our streets.
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Speaker 13: So these laws will get these dangerous weapons off the streets,
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Speaker 13: according to the Premiere, and they've moved as quickly as
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Speaker 13: possible and in her words, we must never let the
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Speaker 13: places we gather, where families shop and enjoy the peace
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Speaker 13: of their weekend, become places that we fear.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah that's true. But once they just use something else,
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Speaker 2: what are you going to do? I hope not baseball bats?
26:03
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I suppose it's a reaction,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. Hey? You were yes? What about this guy
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Speaker 2: in Bali with the drugs chargers charges? Pretty major?
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Speaker 13: Absolutely, There's an Australian man who's from Sydney, Lamar Aaron Atchi.
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Speaker 13: He could face the death penalty for allegedly smuggling one
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Speaker 13: point eight kilos of cocaine in Bali. The forty three
26:25
Speaker 13: year old was arrested.
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Speaker 14: He was.
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Speaker 13: Presented to the media, let's say, in an orange jumpsuit
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Speaker 13: and black balaclava yesterday. We know that the police believed
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Speaker 13: the drugs, estimated to be worth about one point one
26:38
Speaker 13: million dollars, were imported to Indonesia disguised as would you
26:42
Speaker 13: believe linked chocolates in two separate packages. They arrived from
26:46
Speaker 13: the UK allegedly. Now we have heard from the Australian
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Speaker 13: Department of Front Affairs that they are providing consular assistance,
26:53
Speaker 13: but there's no actual charges being laid yet, so we're
26:55
Speaker 13: waiting to hear. Police don't believe that mister Archi was
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Speaker 13: the mastermind. They say he promised around four thousand, seven
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Speaker 13: hundred Ousie dollars to pick up the packages.
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Speaker 2: That's a raw death deal for him, isn't it. Donna,
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Speaker 2: thank you for that. Appreciate your time. Don a demo
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Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent. It is twelve minutes away from six
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Speaker 2: Retailing Z's calling for an urgent meeting with Mark Mitchell.
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Speaker 2: This after police were told to no longer investigate allegations
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Speaker 2: of shoplifting below five hundred bucks. The directive was sent
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Speaker 2: out in March, it was leaked. Police say they will
27:27
Speaker 2: continue to investigate reports if there are avenues of inquiry
27:31
Speaker 2: to explore.
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Speaker 8: And my team alone deal with one point twenty five million. Now,
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Speaker 8: that is ninety thousand census every single month.
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Speaker 14: Now, the reality is we just can't get to that now.
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Speaker 2: That was on drive last night. A Marie Johnson as
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Speaker 2: Retailing Z manager of Advocacy Advice and commons she's with
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Speaker 2: me now and Ree, good morning, Laurena. Have you got
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Speaker 2: your meeting with Mitchell yet?
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Speaker 14: We've certainly been in touch with his office and at
27:56
Speaker 14: the moment where it's just trying to coordinate diaries.
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Speaker 2: Can you under stand this because on the one hand,
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Speaker 2: they say, even if there are lines of inquiry, we
28:04
Speaker 2: won't look into this if it's less than five hundred bucks.
28:07
Speaker 2: Then you had them last night saying well, if there's
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Speaker 2: CCTV and other evidence, then maybe we will.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Look, I think the police have clarified their position and
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Speaker 14: that's certainly helpful. You know, retailers know that police aren't
28:23
Speaker 14: going to show up to this small very minor case
28:28
Speaker 14: of shop listing, but we certainly want to know that
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Speaker 14: they're taking these crimes seriously and that where they can,
28:36
Speaker 14: they will be following up and resting. Often there are
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Speaker 14: peace offenders, so we know who they are and police
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Speaker 14: know who they are, so we want to particularly focus
28:47
Speaker 14: on those people.
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Speaker 2: Retail crime's worth about two point six billion every year.
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Speaker 2: What's the average value of an item stolen? Do you
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Speaker 2: think would it be less than five hundred bucks?
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Speaker 14: Well, look, I don't know the average value, but it
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Speaker 14: can be. But you know a lot of things, A
29:04
Speaker 14: lot of five hundred dollars items over time add up
29:08
Speaker 14: to a lot, and so you know, it's kind of
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Speaker 14: lease the value of the items and the more of
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Speaker 14: the impact that it has on the retailers and their staff,
29:18
Speaker 14: and especially over time, you know, coming to work every
29:22
Speaker 14: day not knowing what you're going to be coming up against,
29:25
Speaker 14: and that's that's tough.
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Speaker 2: And the worst part about all of this, of course,
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Speaker 2: is we're talking about it. It's in the news, and
29:29
Speaker 2: if you are a criminal, you'll be going sweet, I
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Speaker 2: can as so long as I don't leave any evidence,
29:35
Speaker 2: Like we're a beanie and a hoodie. Then if it's
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Speaker 2: less than five hundred bcs. Basically I'm off scot free.
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Speaker 14: Well, like I say, a lot of the time, we
29:45
Speaker 14: know who they are, the police know who they are,
29:47
Speaker 14: and from what police are saying now, they are going
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Speaker 14: to collect the information and use that to build up
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Speaker 14: a case. So we're certainly encouraging our members to keep
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Speaker 14: on reporting all crimes.
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Speaker 2: And we need pa Ry, do you think we need
30:06
Speaker 2: you know how we've got judges, but then we have jps.
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Speaker 2: Do you think we need an equivalent for the police
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Speaker 2: for low level crime where you know, police are obviously busy,
30:17
Speaker 2: they've got murders and things to solve. But if they
30:20
Speaker 2: had if they had delegated powers to some you know,
30:23
Speaker 2: I don't know, some older gentlemen who might be retired
30:26
Speaker 2: and looking for something to do.
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Speaker 14: Oh, I think you're straying into very dangerous territory there, Ryan,
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Speaker 14: When you start talking about vigilante justice and that type
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Speaker 14: of thing, don't you well enough?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not saying they go around shooting people,
30:39
Speaker 2: but maybe just maybe just investigating where the police can't
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Speaker 2: because I mean, otherwise, as you say, two point six
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Speaker 2: billion dollars and I reckon most a lot of thefts.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, forty percent of retailers don't even
30:52
Speaker 2: report the thefts. Most of those thefts would be for
30:56
Speaker 2: less than five hundred dollars, So that means that most
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Speaker 2: retail crime probably wouldn't get either reported or investigated. And
31:06
Speaker 2: you wonder way you got a problem? Eight to Sex
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Speaker 2: the studio. You wouldn't have to worry about anything less
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Speaker 2: worth less than five hundred dollars being stolen because you
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Speaker 2: wouldn't own anything with less than five hundred dollars.
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Speaker 10: Oh, very good, right, very good.
31:32
Speaker 2: Someone's going to pinch your Porsche. The cops are going
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Speaker 2: to care about that.
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Speaker 10: How many insurance claims have you made over the years?
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Speaker 2: Maybe two?
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Speaker 10: See I made one and it was for a potted
31:43
Speaker 10: plant about thirty years ago. A potted plant. Well, it
31:46
Speaker 10: was an outdoor hanging plant, like you know the outdoors
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Speaker 10: when you.
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Speaker 2: Have like a porch. Was it made of gold?
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Speaker 10: No, it wasn't. And that was the funny thing. At
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Speaker 10: the time, I thought, this is I've never claimed it.
31:55
Speaker 10: This particular point in time, I thought, I paid insurance
31:57
Speaker 10: all these years and I've never claimed anything. This potted
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Speaker 10: plant got nicked, and so I thought, I'm going to
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Speaker 10: claim for this, and I did, and then I thought,
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Speaker 10: that's ridiculous, How stupid is that? And I've never claimed
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Speaker 10: for insurance ever on anything ever since.
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Speaker 2: When I say me, I mean actually my partner who's
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Speaker 2: done it for jewelry and sunglasses?
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Speaker 10: Sunglasses sunglasses like nice ones were they?
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Speaker 2: I don't get the nice ones. I have the cheap
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Speaker 2: ones because I'll break them. Yeah, but he wears quite
32:24
Speaker 2: nice ones. But I have personally never made it a
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Speaker 2: claim myself, because don't you lose your no claims?
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Speaker 10: But well, you see, that's the interesting thing, because I
32:32
Speaker 10: know a lot of people who don't take health insurance anymore.
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Speaker 2: What do you do have health insurance? What do you
32:37
Speaker 2: pay for?
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Speaker 10: What do you pay for health insurance?
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Speaker 2: That's that's my partner question.
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Speaker 10: Hundreds And I pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars a
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Speaker 10: month for I mean, look at me, I mean, come on,
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Speaker 10: you back me, wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: You what you want me to say?
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Speaker 10: You don't look like a guy who needs any work. No,
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Speaker 10: My point being I know a lot increasing number of
33:02
Speaker 10: people who put up money aside, and so in other words,
33:04
Speaker 10: that does yeah, and so therefore that just adds up,
33:07
Speaker 10: adds up, adds up, and adds up. And so if
33:09
Speaker 10: something does go wrong, you play the cash.
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Speaker 2: If you're young and you've got a mortgage, then it's
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Speaker 2: worth having. Well, this is what I get told is
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Speaker 2: worth having income protection, assurance, your health.
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Speaker 10: I mean we do you have anything to do with
33:19
Speaker 10: your life at all?
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Speaker 7: Not?
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Speaker 2: Really? No, so say no, everything is taken care of
33:24
Speaker 2: by my care.
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Speaker 10: Are you still an a Veda? Do you like it
33:30
Speaker 10: there in the in the.
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Speaker 2: Special community make nice meals? Now?
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Speaker 10: How did this know a crime? Did that have anything
33:36
Speaker 10: to do with crime or what we were doing? Anyway,
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Speaker 10: we'll have a look at your five hundred dollars thing
33:41
Speaker 10: later on the swngest life stone and a couple of
33:43
Speaker 10: good people doing good business things in this country.
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Speaker 2: I reckon we need more step in. Your pin would
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Speaker 2: be worth more than five hundred pin today.
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Speaker 10: What do you reckon that's worth? Honestly, it looks like
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Speaker 10: a thousand dollars pin seventeen hundred.
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Speaker 2: You're kidding, no Ah, some of us have no worries.
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